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The Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
SingaporeThe Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Singapore by Kai Kai, Pexels License; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Singapore or Stockholm?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Singapore for

  • food and drink
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Singapore’s own page.

Choose Stockholm for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Singapore and Stockholm are level on 40.
Food & drink. Singapore 88, Stockholm 64: Singapore leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Singapore 62, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Singapore 50, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Singapore 45, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Singapore 25, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Singapore 88, Stockholm 82: Singapore leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Singapore 92, Stockholm 84: Singapore leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Singapore 76, Stockholm 70: Singapore leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Singapore 25, Stockholm 30: Stockholm leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Singapore 50, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Singapore 40, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Singapore and Stockholm.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Singapore
57match

Wins on food and drink and getting around with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Singapore in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Stockholm has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSingaporeStockholm
Official languageEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard ChineseSwedish
CurrencySingapore Dollar (SGD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 999, ambulance 995, fire 995112
Elevation21 m22 m
Main airportSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre167 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSingaporeStockholm
City population5,866,139984,748
People per km²8,1585,260
Museums within 10 km40266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.